2000/08/30 by Andrew Ranicki
Mathematics · #math.AT #math.GT #msc:57R67
published as AMS Contemp. Maths. 279, 213-255 (2001) · AMSTEX 43 pages, conm-p.sty, ams-p.sty, ams-spec.sty and xypic input to appear in Proc. 1999 Stanford conference in honour of 60th birthday of R.J.Milgram
arxiv created 2000/08/30 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
This paper is an introduction to the use of the cobordism of chain complexes with Poincaré duality in surgery theory. It is a companion to the author's paper "An introduction to algebraic surgery" math.AT/0008071 (to appear in Volume 2 of Surveys in Surgery Theory, Ann. of Maths. Studies, Princeton, 2001) which is an introduction to algebraic surgery using forms and formations.